Guantian Black Gold Team cooperates with the industries, governments, academics, and communities to develop a patented carbonization process that transforms wastes water caltrop shells into an international standard“Water Caltrop Biochar”. The biochar can purify air, water and improve the soil as a fully recycle system. It not only brings employment opportunities and creates economic values, but also makes a sustainable rural ecology.

With professional operation and innovation management, Tainan Rehabilitation Youth Encouragement Association creates “Leather Program” workshop to cultivate disabilities living skills. It builds up a full production line from design to sewing. Through OEM orders, items selling, courses teaching, and DIY Kit selling, the Association provides stable employments and returns to the society as a best social welfare role model and creates values.

With a vibrant ecosystem, wildlife, and Bunun culture, the Danda area is a diamond in the rough waiting for its moment to shine.

“We often envision the ideal of young people coming home, but have we ever questioned:What will make young people go home ? Is there any industry that can support them? What kind of economic guarantee is there? What kind of industry can allow young people to come home and start a family?”, reflected Chien Chia-Yu, Chairperson of The Tree of Music Environment Education Association of Taiwan. The association has spent years working in the Bayan community of Jinshan District, New Taipei City at a grassroots level.

They drove the local community, living environment, and agriculture towards sustainable development, and worked hard to transform their hometown into the wonderful sight as what we see today.

It’s lonely to walk without the company. Yet, if people try to join forces, they conquer all. "When we tried to promote the community's industries, we found that one community working alone showed little strength. However, if the six units working together, that's a different story."